This vast compendium [Little Foods of the Mediterranean] encapsulates the type of Mediterranean food that I love: simple, tasty, unpretentious, and easy to eat. Whether they are tapas, meze, or antipasti, they represent Mediterranean street food at its best. I especially applaud Clifford Wright’s great research into the similarities and the differences among the little foods of the eighteen countries of the Mediterranean Basin. - Jacques Pépin, chef, cookbook author, and public television show host

[Clifford A. Wright's Cucina Paradiso] Editor’s Choice of the Best Books of 1992 - New York Times Book Review, December 6, 1992.